The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-22

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seiiare as widely different as the reports in the
London Times from the two correspondents
Edward Payson, sometimes far mp on the
mount that it seemed as If the centripetal force
OF the earth could no longer hold him some
| time through physical disorder was so far
down that it seemed as if the neither world
would clutch him. Glorious William
Cowper was as good as good could be, and
will be loved in the Christian church
as long as it sings his hymn, beginning
There is fountain filed with blood" and
his hymn beginning ooh for closer walk
with God" and his hymn beginning: "What
various hindrances we meet" and his hymn
beginning: God moves in a mysterious way
Yet so was he overcome of melancholy, OF
black bile, that it was only through the mis-
take OF the cab-driver who took him to a
wrong place, instead Of the river bank, that
he did not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so nightly affected by
the physical state, what great opportunity
this gives to the Christian physician, for he
can feel at the same time both the pulse of the
body and the pulse of the soul, and he can
administer to both at once, and if medicine is
needed he can give that, and if spiritual coun-
sci is needed be can give that--an earthly and
divine prescription at the same time-and
call on not only the apothecary of earth, but
the pharmacy Of heaven All, that is the kind
of doctor / want at my bedside when I get
sick, one that can not only count out the right
number of drops, but who can also pray. That's
the kind Of doctor have had in my house when
sickness or death came l do not want any Of
your protiigate or atheistic doctors around my
loved ones when the balances Of life are tremb-
ling. A doctor who has gone through the
medical college, and in dissecting room has
trayersed the wonders of the human mechan-
ism, and found no God in any of the laby-
rinths, is a fool, and cannot doctor me or mine
But, oh, the Christian doctors " What a COM
fort they have been in many of our households
And they ought to have a warm place in our
IN mn
old DR.. Skillmanl My fathers doctor, my
mothers doctor, in the village home.
He carried all the condolences of
all the families for ten miles around
We all felt better as soon as we saw him enter
the house. Ills face pronounced a beatitude
before he said a word. He welcomed all of us
children into life, and he closed the old peo.
pies eyes when they entered the last slumber.
i think know what Christ said to him when
the old doctor got through his work. / think
he was greeted with the words: "Come in
doctor l was sick and We visited mel"
bless God that the number of Christian ply
sicians is multiplying, and some of the stu
dents of the medical colleges are here today,
and hail you, and | bless you, and L ordain
you to the tender beautiful heaven
physician, arc when you take your diploma
from the Long Island medical college, to look
after the perishable body, be sure, also, to get
diploma from the skies to look after the i'm
bOul Leu all NuTISlldn physicians
unite with ministers of the gospel in persuad-
ing good people that it is not because God is
against them that they sometimes feel de-
pressed, but because of their diseased body
/ suppose David, the psalmist, was no more
pious, when he called on everything human
and angelic, animate and inanimate, and
from snowflake to hurricane, TO praise
God, than when he said: "Out of
the depths of hell have | cried unto
Thee, Lord" OF that Jeremiah was any bet
ter when he wrote his Prophecy than when he
wrote his Lamentations" or that Job was
any better when he said: 81 know that my
Redeemer liveth," than when covered all over
with the pustules of elephantiasi5 he sat in
the ashes scratching the scabs off with a
broken piece OF pottery; or that Alexander
Cruden, the concordist, was any better man
when he compiled the book that has helped
ten thousand students of the Bible, than when
under the power Of physical disorder he was
handouffed and strait-waistcoated i'll Bethnal
Green insane asylum.
"Oh, says some Christian man, "go on
ought to allow physical disorder TO depress his
soul. He ought TO live so near to God as to be
always in the sunshine.n Yes, that is good
advice; but warrant that you, the man who
gives the advice, has a sound liver. Thank
God every day for healthful hepatic condition,
for just as certainly as you lose it you will
sometimes, like David, and like Jeremiah, and
like Cowper, and like Alexander Cruden, and
like ten thousand other invalds, be playing q
dead march on the Same organ with which
now you play Toccata. My object ut this
point is not only to emolliate tho criti-
cisms of the well againt those in poor
health, but to show Christian people who are
atrabilarious what Is the matter with them.
DO not charge against the heart the crimes OF
another portion of your organism. Do not
conclude that because tho path of heaven is
not arbored with as fine a foliage, or the banks
beautifully showed under with exquisite chy-
santhemums as once, that therefore you are
ON tho wrong road. The road will bring You
out mt the same gate whether you walk with
the stride of an athlete or come up on orutches.
Thousands of Christians morbid about their
experiences and morbid about their business,
and morbid about sthe present, and morbid
about the future, need the sermon 1 am now
preaching
Another practical use Of this subject is for
the young. The theory is abroad that they
must first sow their wild oats, and afterwards
Michigan wheat Let me break the delusion.
Wild oats are generally sown in the liver, and
they can never be pulled up. They so preoc-
cupy that organ that there is no room for tho
implantatiou Of righteous crop. You see
aged men about us at eighty, erect, agile,
splendid, grand old men. How much wild oats
did they sow between eighteen years and
thirty? None, absolutely none. God does not
very often honor with old ago those who have
in early life sacrificed swine on the altar of the
bodily temple. Remember o young man,
that while in after life, and after years OF dis
siQation, You may perhaps have your heart
changed, religion does not change the liver.
Trembling and staggering along these streets
today are men, all bent and decayed and pre-
malurCly old for the reason that they are pay
ing for liens they put upon their physical estate
before they We're thirty. by early dissipation
they put on their body a first mortgage, and
a second mortgage and n third mort
gage TO the doyil, and these mort
cages are now being foreelosed, and
all that remains OF their earthly estate the I'M
dertaker viii soon put out OF sight Many
years ago, in fultilment of my text, a dart
struck through their liver, and it is there yet.
God forgives, but outraged physical law never
never, never. Thet has n Sinai, but no CAL
vary. solomon in my text knew what he was
talking about. He hud, in carly life, been q
prohgate, and he rises up on his throne OF
worldly splendor 10 shrek ont warning TO all
the centuries. David, bad in early life, but
good in later life, cries out with an agony OF
eanestnoSS: "Remember not the sins Of my
youth "
Stephen A. Douglas gave the name OF
'Squatter sovereignty" TO those who went out
west and took possession of lands and held
them by right Of preoccupation. Let flock
Of sins sottle on your heart before You get tc
twenty-five years Of age, and they Will in all
probability keep in possession of it by an in
fernal squattor sovereignty. 81 promise &c
pay at the bank five hundred dollars six
months from date" says the promissory note
al promise TO pay my life thirty years from
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